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Bash Plus Spaces In Filenames Equals Headache

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Understanding Redhat Kickstart

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Kickstart provides linux system administrators a method for installing linux on pc's in unattended mode. A properly formatted Kickstart configuration will perform all tasks such as setting the root password, the networking interfaces, the disk partitioning scheme as well as the installation of packages. I needed to build a clustered reverse proxy the other day to test if it could be used for SSL termination. I was looking for a way to aggregate multiple webservers behind a proxy server so that they could have their SSL terminate at the proxy, then the HTTP traffic passed through a Level 7 ( application layer ) scanner to test for sql injection and the like. So I fired up my trusty Virtualbox and built a standard Centos 5.4 server. I copied the CD into the ftp directory and started NFS with an export to that FTP directory. This server was to serve as an install NFS server for the 2 proxy servers as well as a yum repository for them. That's why I placed the CD files in the F